modern, contemporary, current, recent, present, up-to-date

名詞 modern:

1. a contemporary person
2. a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
   同義詞：modern font, Bodoni, Bodoni font

形容詞 modern:

1. belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
2. relating to a recently developed fashion or style;
   同義詞：mod, modernistic
3. characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
4. ahead of the times
   同義詞：advanced, forward-looking, innovative
5. used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
   同義詞：New

1. Modern agriculture is spoiling our beautiful countryside.
   現(xiàn)代農(nóng)業(yè)正在破壞我們美麗的農(nóng)村。
2. He can't adjust himself to the whirl of modern life in this big city.
   他無法適應(yīng)這個大都市的現(xiàn)代生活的忙碌。
3. The modern office block sticks out like a sore thumb among the old buildings in the area.
   那座現(xiàn)代的辦公樓直挺挺地豎在那片舊建筑物群中十分扎眼。
4. Her novel depicts life in modern London.
   她的小說描寫的是倫敦現(xiàn)代的生活。
5. She wears a modern dress.
   她穿著一件時髦的禮服。
6. What do you think of modern art?
   你對現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)有何看法？
7. It's more useful to learn modern languages, such as English and German, than Latin.
   學(xué)習(xí)英語和德語等現(xiàn)代語言比學(xué)習(xí)拉丁語更為有用。

mod.ern

adj.Abbr. mod.（形容詞）縮寫 mod.

Of or relating to recent times or the present:
近代的：屬于或有關(guān)最近的時間的或現(xiàn)在的：
例句：
modern history.
近代史

Characteristic or expressive of recent times or the present; contemporary or up-to-date:
現(xiàn)代的，新式的：顯示或表現(xiàn)最近時間或現(xiàn)在的；現(xiàn)代的或最新的：
例句：
a modern lifestyle; a modern way of thinking.
現(xiàn)代生活方式；現(xiàn)代的思考方式

Of or relating to a recently developed or advanced style, technique, or technology:
現(xiàn)代的，最新的：屬于或有關(guān)一種最近發(fā)展的或先進(jìn)的風(fēng)格、技能或技術(shù)：
例句：
modern art; modern medicine.
現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)；最新的醫(yī)藥

Avant-garde; experimental.
先鋒的；試驗性的
Modern Linguistics Of, relating to, or being a living language or group of languages:
Modern 【語言學(xué)】 現(xiàn)代的：屬于、有關(guān)或作為一種正在使用的語言或語系的：
例句：
Modern Italian, Modern Romance languages.
現(xiàn)代意大利語，現(xiàn)代羅曼語系

n.（名詞）
One who lives in modern times.
現(xiàn)代人：生活在現(xiàn)代的人
One who has modern ideas, standards, or beliefs.
時髦人士人：有現(xiàn)代思想、標(biāo)準(zhǔn)或信念的人
Printing Any of a variety of typefaces characterized by strongly contrasted heavy and thin parts.
【印刷術(shù)】 現(xiàn)代式印刷字型：鉛字種類，其字樣以強烈對比的重和細(xì)部分為特征

來源：
French moderne
法語 moderne
from Old French
源自 古法語
from Late Latin modernus
源自 后期拉丁語 modernus
from Latin modo [in a certain manner, just now]
源自 拉丁語 modo [以某種既定方式，剛才]
from modô [ablative of] modus [manner] * see med-
源自 modô [] modus的奪格 [方式] *參見 med-

【引伸】
mod.ernly
adv.（副詞）
mod.ernness
n.（名詞）
<注釋>The wordmodern, first recorded in 585 in the sense .of present or recent times,. has traveled through the centuriesdesignating things that inevitably must become old-fashionedas the word itself goes on to the next modern thing.We have now invented the wordpostmodern, as if we could finally fixmodern in time, but evenpostmodern (first recorded in 949) will seem fusty in the end, perhaps sooner thanmodern will. Going back to Late Latinmodernus, .modern,. which is derived frommodo in the sense .just now,. the English wordmodern (first recorded at the beginning of the 'th century) was not originally concerned with anything that could be later considered old-fashioned. It simply meant .being at this time, now existing,. an obsolete sense today.Beginning in the later 'th century, however, we see the word contrasted with the wordancient and also used of technology in a way that is clearly related to our own modern way of using the word.Modern was being applied specifically to what pertained to present times and also to what was new and not old-fashioned.Thus in the 9th and 20th centuries the word could be used to designate a movement in art,which is now being followed by postmodernism.
單詞modern 首次于585年以.現(xiàn)在的或最近的時代.的意義被記載， 它已經(jīng)歷了數(shù)個世紀(jì)，表明必然會變得過時的事物，就象這個詞本身也會繼續(xù)走向更加現(xiàn)代?，F(xiàn)在我們已發(fā)明了單詞postmodern， 仿佛我們終于能及時固定住modern 的了， 但即使是postmodern （首次于949年記載）最終也會顯得過時， 也許比modern 更快。 可追溯至近代拉丁詞modernus .現(xiàn)代的.， 源自表示.剛才.意思的modo ， 英語單詞modern （首先在'世紀(jì)初被記載）原本與后來被認(rèn)為過時的事物沒有任何聯(lián)系。 它只意味著.現(xiàn)時的，現(xiàn)存的.，今天已廢棄了的一個意思。然而從'世紀(jì)晚期我們看到這個詞成為ancient 的反義詞并且用于科技， 其意義與我們現(xiàn)在使用的意義明顯相關(guān)。Modern 當(dāng)時特指現(xiàn)時的事物， 也指新的且不過時的事物。因此在9世紀(jì)和20世紀(jì)這個詞能被用來表示藝術(shù)上的一個運動，現(xiàn)在尾隨其后的是后現(xiàn)代主義